8-letter words containing s, u, l, p, i
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- pusslike — resembling a puss
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- split-up — the act of splitting.
- spoilful — plundering
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- superlie — to lie above
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- supplier — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- supplies — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- unpolish — to remove polish from, to make imperfect
- unspoilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.